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• Dominance contests with other wolves are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none.

  L. David Mech

  Summer, Dominance, Saws

  "Alpha status, dominance, and division of labor in wolf packs". Canadian Journal of Zoology, Volume 77: 1196-1203, 1999.

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• Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Fear, Sea, Unions

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• I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach. I really can’t think of any other music which is so all-encompassing, which moves me so deeply and so consistently, and which, to use a rather imprecise word, is valuable beyond all of its skill and brilliance for something more meaningful than that — its humanity.

  Glenn Gould

  Meaningful, Moving, Thinking

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• We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles of misconceptions as heavy as the great sacks upon their backs these simple, rough-handed people are the ancestors of our descendants, the fathers and mothers of our children.

  Walter Weyl

  Mother, Children, Confused

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• The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its back." The war between water and land is never-ending. Waves shatter themselves in spent fury against the rocky bulwarks of the coast; giant tides eat away the sand beaches and alter the entire contour of an island overnight; williwaw winds pour down the side of a volcano like snow sliding off a roof, building to a hundred-mile velocity in a matter of minutes and churning the ocean into a maelstrom where the stoutest vessels founder.

  Corey Ford

  Beach, War, Ocean

  Corey Ford (2003). “Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story - Georg Steller & the Russian Exploration of AK”, p.11, Graphic Arts Books

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• Throughout history, men have tried to play God by moving rabbits, goats, sparrows, mongooses, and a hundred other species to oceanic islands and island continents, and later have wished to God they hadn't.

  Victor Blanchard Scheffer

  Moving, Men, Play

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• Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations.

  Amy Goodman

  Country, Impact, Sea

  Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan (2012). “The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope”, p.96, Haymarket Books

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• The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die.

  Lewis Gordon

  Swim, Deception, Done

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• The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

  Thinking, Sea, Two

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• I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.

  Michael D. Higgins

  People, Imagination, Celebration

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a story, no doubt apocryphal, that gamers at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, have many times replayed the 1942 Battle of Midway - but have never been able to produce an American victory.

  Robert Cowley

  Peace, War, College

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• Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses, and one thousand Murphys. Smith, Campbell, Jones and Murphy: the names of the United Kingdom, whose presence in regiments from all four countries speaks of the ebb and flow of peoples within these islands, of a common sacrifice, and a shared agony that burned in so many million hearts down the decades.

  Kevin Myers

  Country, Peace, War

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• Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dark, Clouds, Blue

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.92, Delphi Classics

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• Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts, New York City, Long Island, the California coast and a few big cities on the Great Lakes - in other words, every Democratic enclave will be wiped out leaving only the solid Republican heartland. Politically speaking, for conservatives there's no downside to global warming.

  Mark Steyn

  New York, Business, California

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• Within evangelicalism is a distressing drift toward accepting a Christianity that does not demand a life-changing walk with God. Many evangelicals (today) do not realize that the church has always been an island of righteousness in a sea of paganism, but as a result they turned the world upside-down.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Life Changing, Sea, Church

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• Englishmen must have an island.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Englishmen

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.45, New Directions Publishing

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• You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries.

  Israel Zangwill

  Thinking, Race, Blood

  Israel Zangwill (2015). “The Melting Pot”, p.38, Israel Zangwill

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• Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live and die on the streets and beaches all over this Caribbean island of almost four million people.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Dog, Beach, People

  "Save the Satos" by Juliana Hatfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2010.

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• You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red roads of Prince Edward Island in a summer twilight when the dew is falling and the old stars are peeping out and the sea keeps its mighty tryst with the little land it loves. You find your soul then. You realize that youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Summer, Stars, Fall

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• To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists in one's becoming convinced that all is taken care of and that once named, the phenomenon has also been explained.

  Primo Levi

  Taken, Names, Giving

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• The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.

  Lewis Thomas

  Independent, Self, Myth

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity in an ocean of emptiness.

  Paul Davies

  Ocean, Space, Secret

  Paul Davies (2008). “The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe”, p.4, Basic Books

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• Fr. Amphilochios, the geronta or elder on the island of Patmos when I first stayed there, would have been in full agreement. Do you know, he said, that God gave us one more commandment, which is not recorded in Scripture? It is the commandment love the trees. Whoever does not love trees, so he believed, does not love God. When you plant a tree, he insisted, you plant hope, you plant peace, you plant love, and you will receive God's blessing.

  Kallistos Ware

  Christian, Blessing, Agreement

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• Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many bridges that connect the island of our soul with the great continent of common life. . . the broadest, perhaps, but in no way the most refined.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Bridges, Soul, Way

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• On the periscope . . . . What a beautiful view. Cloud cover over Florida - three to four tenths near the eastern coast. Obscured up to Hatteras . . . I can see [lake] Okeechobee. Identify Andros Island. Identify the reefs.

  Alan Shepard

  Beautiful, Moon, Lakes

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